Chapter 179 Be the shopkeeper
Where can Yingbao find any solution?
A woman's marriage is decided by her parents, and no outsider can interfere.
Besides, Chu Chu is not young and it is indeed time for marriage.
"How about you go and talk to my master?" Ying Bao gave her an idea.
In my opinion, Mrs. Wen is a female elder with certain prestige here, and she is best suited to discuss this matter with Sister Chu Chu's biological father.
"However, Sister Chu Chu, I estimate that my master will help you avoid it for at least half a year. After the autumn harvest, you still have to go home with your father." This is the truth.
Chu Chu is sixteen this year, and will be seventeen after the Chinese New Year. In the countryside, there are really not many girls who are over sixteen or seventeen and are still unmarried.
Chu Chu nodded with a grimace, and immediately took Ying Bao to find Mrs. Wen.
Mrs. Wen was also open-minded. Seeing that Chu Chu had made up her mind, she nodded and agreed to help her.
When Chu Chu happily ran to help the nanny in the work, Mrs. Wen pointed at the cherry blossom with her finger and said angrily: "You little girl, you are causing trouble for me as soon as you come back. Why don't you come over and review the homework you missed?"
"Yes." Ying Bao giggled and sat reading with Wen Shu.
During the break, Wen Shu told Ying Bao, "My mother and I will go back to Yuzhou in a few days."
Ying Bao frowned: "Why?"
Wen Shu whispered: "My grandparents asked me to go back." She was embarrassed to tell Ying Bao because she was eleven years old and had to go back to her family to see her.
In fact, Chu Chu was not the only one who had worries about getting married, she had the same problem, so A Niang agreed to help Chu Chu.
But a woman is born to marry. Although she resisted, she had to compromise.
Ying Bao had known that one day she would have to say goodbye to Sister Wen and the others, and she also expected that they might be separated for the rest of their lives.
He stepped forward to hug Wen Shu, put his face against her chest, and said softly: "Then you must remember me when you go back, and write to me often. Don't lose any news as soon as you leave like last time."
Wen Shu didn't expect Ying Bao to say this, so he chuckled and said, "I thought you would be reluctant to let me go."
"If you don't want to leave, you will still leave." Ying Bao sighed: "There is no such thing as a banquet in the world, as long as I am thinking about you."
Wen Shu patted her head and hummed softly, "I will always think about you and write to you often. Yingbao, you have to be good. If you have any difficulties, just send me a letter. My home is in Fucheng. There is a medicine shop called Kang'an Medicine Hall, and my father is temporarily practicing there."
Ying Bao nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Wen Shu added: "There will be someone from Yuzhou. If you send a letter, let him take it."
"Um."
A few days later, Chu Chu's own father came to pick up Chu Chu, but as expected, Mrs. Wen sent him away and never came again.
After another ten days, Yanru had used up all the icing sugar and made more than a hundred kilograms of preserved apricots and peaches, as well as some preserved pears.
All these preserved fruits have been dried and put into jars, and some of them were taken to the county town by Jiang Quan to sell some.
However, preserved fruits are not very popular nowadays, and fresh fruits are not popular.
Jiang Quan and his eldest brother Jiang Cheng picked ripe apricots and peaches these days, transported them to the county town by horse-drawn carriage, and set up a fruit stall in front of Yingbao's shop. The business was very prosperous.
During this period, Jiang Sanlang also went there once, spending money to hire people to repair the house and shops, and asked his nephew Dacheng to take care of them there.
The money for repairing the house was given by my little girl, totaling more than one hundred taels. It was Mrs. Wen who advanced Jin Er's money, and it was all used up in the end.
Seeing that the grapes and peppers were also ripe, Yingbao decided to pick some and give them to Wu Daozi to try. By the way, he took his eldest brother Jiang Jie to visit Mr. Wu.
The carriage arrived in front of the shop first. Jiang Quan and his eldest brother, who came together, moved three baskets of grapes from the carriage and left one basket of grapes on the carriage to give to Mr. Wu tomorrow.
Yingbao put some grapes in a basket and put them together with the basket in the car.
Afterwards, Jiang Sanlang drove a carriage to his new home on Plum Blossom Lane. He was going to clean up and check on the progress of the carpenter.
Ying Bao took her younger brother Jiang Jie to check inside and outside the store.
The shop floor has been cleaned, and some brand new bamboo baskets are piled inside.
The damaged areas of the house have also been repaired, and even the three huts at the back have been renovated, but they are empty inside.
Jiang Quan followed behind his little cousin and said with a smile: "I will be the boss of this shop from now on."
Ying Bao said seriously: "Second brother, you will be a merchant after you become the shopkeeper."
"A merchant is a merchant." Jiang Quan said nonchalantly.
Jiang Cheng glanced at his younger brother: "It doesn't matter if you are a merchant, don't burden Yuan Bao."
"What do you mean?" Jiang Quan frowned: "I am my merchant, what does it have to do with Yuanbao?"
Ying Bao: "Because the Ming Dynasty said that as long as one person in the family is doing business, he is also a merchant."
Jiang Quan scratched his head and was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Then I will separate it by myself. I have a household of my own and has nothing to do with others."
Jiang Cheng sneered: "How old are you? You haven't grown up yet, and you haven't started a family yet. How can you divide your household?"
"This..." Jiang Quan was at a loss.
Jiang Cheng continued: "I will become a teenager this year." He glanced at his little cousin and said, "So I can be the shopkeeper of this shop."
Jiang Quan became angry when he heard this: "No! I, I..." He stuttered for a long time and couldn't think of anything to refute.
Indeed, the eldest brother is already a grown man. If he proposes to split up the business, his parents will definitely not object.
Jiang Jie raised his head and looked at his eldest brother and then his second brother and said, "Eldest brother is not married yet." Not getting married means not getting married and starting a family. Jiang Jie understands this.
Jiang Cheng pinched his little cousin's cheek and threatened in a low voice: "I won't buy you mutton skewers later!"
Jiang Quan laughed and said: "It's okay Xiaojie, my second brother will buy it for you later."
Ying Bao on the side:······
At this time, someone walked into the shop, two servants in black.
"Eh? Your family also sells grapes from the Western Regions?" One person saw two baskets of purple grapes in the shop, reached out to pick a few and stuffed them into his mouth, saying vaguely: "Not bad, not bad, how much does it cost per pound?"
Jiang Quan hurried over and said, "Fifty cents per catty. You are the first customer today. I think you can get a discount, just thirty-five cents per catty."
This customer is a regular customer of his place and has bought fruits from him several times.
The servant in black curled his lips, picked a few more grapes and stuffed them into his mouth. He muttered, "Okay, okay, just thirty cents per catty. Let me weigh ten catties." He took it out of the satchel around his waist. Three hundred copper coins.
While complaining about the loss, Jiang Quan weighed ten kilograms of grapes for him. Since he had nothing to put them in, he also gave him a small bamboo basket.
The person who came with this servant also weighed the five pounds, paid one hundred and fifty coins, and took away a basket to fill it up without ceremony.
After the two left, Jiang Quan put all the copper coins in a wooden box and muttered: "Another loss of ten coins."
He bought these bamboo baskets from a load bearer for five cents each, and they were reserved for customers who bought a lot to hold fruits.
Yingbao: "It's not bad, it's not a loss."
Although grapes are not expensive at thirty cents per pound, they are not cheap either. The advantage is that these grapes are grown at home and cost nothing. If you purchase goods from the county fruit store and then sell them, it will be a blood loss.
At this moment, Yingbao felt that her second cousin was more suitable to be a buddy.